Georgia B Sanchez Literary Interpretation #1017870.07 7.14.2023 Bridge San Luis Rey Interpretive Essay The Bridge of San Luis Rey was written by Thornton Wilder a great Author who wrote many books, this book in particular is as close to a perfect moral fable. The bridge Of San Luis Rey was published in the year 1927. Marquesa de Montemayer a daughter of a wealthy man who sells things and trades them, in around the eighteen century in colonial Peru. Marquesa has a kind of love for her daughter thats so special thats its unimaginable and her name was Dona Clara, another main character. Marquesa figures out she must abandon her selfish love and discover a new way to live, she manages this by starting a new beginning. After …show more content…
Her mom was an unpleasant, unhappy person she was mad at her daughter, she even at one time didn’t lover her because of her looks she was rood to her even at certain times, Clara was like her father who didn’t show any affection towards. Her mother Marquesa stayed single for some time. When Clara got married her and her husband moved to Spain so she can get away from her mother. Dona Maria had missed the feeling of loving her she sent handmade letters even though she wasn't capable of writing she managed to, just to attempt to pull her closer to …show more content…
What she longed for was to be accepted by someone, but she only did it in a selfish manner. Since Dona Maria was a lonely person she adopted a girl from an orphanage to keep her attained through her struggles of being lonely and her name was Pepita. Pepita was made by Marquesa to travel with her everywhere she went and was treated like her right hand. Dona Clara paid little to no attention to the letters that her mother had taken the time to write to her and barely responded to them ans she gained enough courage to respond she said only a few words, her mother didn’t care much about herself, for example she didn’t take care of her health she would also sometimes get drunk because her daughter refused to speak with her. In her own perspective she thought that nobody understood the term love or even what it was she basically questioned the existence of love. She claimed that she was the only one who new what love was, “She secretly refused to believe that anyone except herself loved anyone” pg. (17).She didn’t know how to love or know what love was even though she claimed she was the only one who knew how to love. She though the excess amount of love she showed was the right amount, she was only trying to receive what she didn’t have. When Dona